ID: 328
Reference: Shen Jiawei 沈嘉蔚, Old China through G.E. Morrison's eyes 莫理順的今代中國, Fuzhou, Fujian jiaoyu chubanshe 福建教育出版社 (2005)
Type de Bibliographie: Book
Type de Texte: Album of images
Auteurs: Shen Jiawei 沈嘉蔚
Titre: Old China through G.E. Morrison's eyes 莫理順的今代中國
Année: 2005
Publisher: Fujian jiaoyu chubanshe 福建教育出版社
Place publication: Fuzhou
Nb_page: 3
Résumé: A wide selection of photographs taken by or for Georges E. Morisson, the famous Time correspondant and advisor of Yuan Shikai. Among many fascinating scenes of officials, commoners, soldiers (particularly Mongol kings with their personal guards and armies daily life, including the author's "Chinese" life and household (and wife), the volume titled "Eyewitness of Reformation" (an awkward rendition for 目擊變革, "Witnessing change"), has some pictures of a lingchi execution, presumably Wang Weiqin's, which are from the same set as the three published by Hartfeld and Heindl (qq.vv.), but with for more; the whole is complementary with (meaning different from) the set of stereoscopic photographs kept in various museums and Jules Richard Verascope archives. The first photograph of the section on "cruel punishments" (p. 85), cannot belong to the "lingchi" set, despite what the caption suggests, but possibly shows the man beheaded on p. 91.

Related Events (1)

1  Title: Exécution de Wang Weiqin
    Date of event: october 1904

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